Some Help/Information with vB Integration Please

[DarkScythe]

Hello,

A few weeks ago I decided to purchase a vB license for my forums. I plan to use it in conjunction with the ExpressionEngine CMS/Blog. This was after some careful consideration and lots of comparisons with competing software - I hope I made the right choice. My plan is to integrate the two programs just enough so that a user will only need to register once either on the forums, or at the CMS and have access to both. Previously, I had completed an integration that suited my needs between EE and phpBB2. However, as my luck would have it, the team decided to release phpBB3 release candidates soon after. Knowing that phpBB2 was then at the end of its line, I had to scrap that and move on. I tried to make sense of phpBB3's code, but had no luck.

Anyway, this leads me to vB. I'm looking at the code, but I'm a bit stumped at how to get access to the $password variable. One of my biggest considerations for purchasing vB was hoping its support was a little better than phpBB's support - it was pretty hit and miss for help with the code. Being that vB is closed source, I hope that everyone is a little more familiar with it.

What I did with phpBB2 was to insert an additional database call during user registration and a few other places to copy the most important user details (username/password/email) into the ExpressionEngine database and vice-versa. After all the bugs were worked out, this worked out very well, at least during my bit of testing.

I'm trying to essentially mirror this with vB, so the first step I took was to head into the registration file. part way down, I can see what I believe is the database call to update the database with the password, but I have no idea how to proceed from there - it doesn't look like that's the real password. I think it may have already been hashed somewhere, but I can't seem to locate when that happens to capture it and send it to EE's database.

If anyone can help em out with this, I'd be extremely grateful - thanks in advance.

Edit:
Now that I think about it, I may not actually need the original password. ExpressionEngine supports both MD5 and SHA1 encryption. With phpBB2, I changed its system to use SHA1 as well, to be compatible with EE since I set it to use SHA1 over MD5. However, I suppose there's little difference between using the two, and vB appears to use a salt which is better than phpBB2's implementation. Unfortunately, I don't think EE supports salts, so if I were to be able to grab the MD5 hash, it would have to be before the salt is added to it, and I can simply copy that into EE's database.. that still leaves the username/email fields though..